Diagnosis, therapy, and evidence : conundrums in modern American medicine / Gerald N. Grob and Allan V. Horwitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grob, Gerald N., 1931-2015.

Contributor:

Horwitz, Allan V.

Series:

Critical issues in health and medicine.

Critical issues in health and medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social medicine--United States.

Social medicine.

Diseases and history--United States.

Diseases and history.

Diagnosis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Employing historical and contemporary data and case studies, the authors also examine tonsillectomy, cancer, heart disease, anxiety, and depression, and identify differences between rhetoric and reality and the weaknesses in diagnosis and treatment.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

Chapter 1. Rhetoric and Reality in Modern American Medicine

Chapter 2. Medical Rivalry and Etiological Speculation: The Case of Peptic Ulcer

Chapter 3. How Theory Makes Bad Practice: The Case of Tonsillectomy

Chapter 4. How Science Tries to Explain Deadly Diseases: Coronary Heart Disease and Cancer

Chapter 5. Transforming Amorphous Stress into Discrete Disorders: The Case of Anxiety

Chapter 6. Depression: Creating Consensus from Diagnostic Confusion

Chapter 7. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: The Result of Abnormal Environments or Abnormal Individuals?

Epilogue. Where Do We Go from Here?

Notes

Index

About the Authors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613587633

9781280492402

1280492406

9780813548128

0813548128

OCLC:

593295655